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“A promise must never be broken.”
“Promise a lot and give even more.”
“2005 opens with the promise of a number of substantial direct private investments that can swiftly transform the economy and set all sectors on a pronounced upward curve.”
“If we promise as public officials, we must deliver. If we as public officials propose, we must produce.”
“The first sentence of a book is a promise.”
“All I can ever promise is that I will do my very best.”
“With a contained environment, there is the promise of friction. And that is where the drama comes from.”
“When did the future switch from being a promise to a threat?”
“I never promise anything. I don’t promise anything to my mum. I don’t promise anything to the supporters.”
“The promise of autonomous vehicles is great.”
“I’m not trying to be macho, I promise you.”
“It’s terribly important that we extend the promise of equality that the Supreme Court and that the district court articulated in the DOMA case and in the Perry case to all Americans in all 50 states.”
“Beauty is the promise of happiness.”
“The promise of an action movie to a certain audience is not a bad thing.”
“A prime minister must not promise things that can’t be fulfilled.”
“When I promise I’ll do something, I do it. At least since I got sober.”
“We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears.”
“We promise in proportion to our hopes, and we deliver in proportion to our fears.”
“Promise is most given when the least is said.”
“Gang members aren’t frightened into acceptable behavior by increased penalties, enhanced punishments, and the promise of new detention facilities.”
“When you promise something, you must fulfill it.”
“April is a promise that May is bound to keep.”
“When people campaign for positions, they promise people all kinds of things.”
“The promise of individual and collective emancipation implicit in the notion of progress appears to be broken.”
“Those that are most slow in making a promise are the most faithful in the performance of it.”
“Girls we love for what they are; young men for what they promise to be.”
“I’m intrigued by fanatics – people who are seduced by the promise, or the illusion, of the absolute.”
“Childhood is a promise that is never kept.”
“I made a promise to myself to be kinder to other people.”
“I promise you a police car on every sidewalk.”
“In not my, but our collective hands, is held the promise of change.”
“Better a broken promise than none at all.”
“People shouldn’t be interested in me. They should be interested in me if I’m not doing what I promise.”
“I did not actually run down a deer for ‘Tammy,’ I promise.”
“Drink moderately, for drunkeness neither keeps a secret, nor observes a promise.”
“I promise not to become a source of shame for you.”
“Currently I’m not a crazy ex-girlfriend, but I can’t promise I won’t be one again.”
“Honoring everyone contains the promise of possibility.”
“A prince never lacks legitimate reasons to break his promise.”
“Nothing keeps its promise.”
“An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise.”
“Bill de Blasio was swept to the New York mayoralty on the promise of getting Gracie Mansion out from under the thumb of corporate elites.”
“Catalysts offer the promise of making chemical transformations far less polluting.”
“A promise made is a debt unpaid.”
“Liberalism has consequences. It has never worked, folks! It has never worked. And it has never fulfilled its promise.”
“Of course a politician’s promise isn’t worth the paper it’s written on.”
“Promise, large promise, is the soul of an advertisement.”
“We’ll be back. I promise you that.”
“I promise that no one wants to deliver a winner to Fulham supporters more than I do.”
“Promise less, deliver more.”
“The truthiness is, anyone can read the news to you. I promise to feel the news ‘at’ you.”
“Like all paradises, Topanga is pitched at the tipping point of promise and peril.”
“A promise made should be a promise kept.”
“Love is a promise delivered already broken.”
“I have done my duty and lived up to my promise of having exposed Jayalalitha.”
“He is poor indeed that can promise nothing.”
“We were not fathers also to convey the promise, as Abraham was; nor although the promise, as collectively taken, had belonged to us, as to Abraham it did.”
“It was both Abraham’s and the Jews’ privilege also that they should have this promise to all generations.”
“Science reckons many prophets, but there is not even a promise of a Messiah.”
“We can never completely fulfill the promise of this treasured republic if we are blinded by color.”
“Rarely promise, but, if lawful, constantly perform.”
“Liberals often don’t see the problems, and conservatives don’t see the promise, of government.”
“When you make a promise, keep it.”